Darebin City Council

🚴 Do you love a freebie!? Due to a late cancellation, we have one FREE ticket available in our Practical Bike Maintenance Workshop on Sunday 2 March at Reservoir Leisure Centre. Be the first person to visit the link, and you’ll get to learn essential bike skills from our friendly trainers in our very popular course - for FREE! https://lnkd.in/gNn_-2hP 🚲 Learn more about our ever-popular Autumn Bike Skills program, visit our website to find all the course details, dates and booking info: https://ow.ly/X0bm50V81el

Did you catch the Darebin Volunteer Expo last year? Don’t miss it this year on Saturday 29 March from 10-1 at the Darebin Intercultural Centre to find the volunteer opportunity in Darebin that's just right for you! Register online https://ow.ly/GOsc50V7nSN

💬 Are you a business owner in Darebin? Complete Darebin’s 2025 Business Survey and go into the draw to win two Palace Cinemas tickets! Your input will help shape Darebin’s new Economic Framework, guiding how we support businesses and foster growth. Share your experiences and priorities to help us improve doing business in Darebin 💬 Find out more and complete the survey by 16 March at: https://ow.ly/QFgB50V3bU1

⭐ Ramadan Kareem! Wishing a peaceful and blessed month of Ramadan to those in our community that are celebrating. Ramadan is a sacred time of fasting, reflection, and prayer observed by Muslims around the world. It is a month of spiritual renewal, self-discipline, and generosity, bringing families and communities together in gratitude and faith. May this special time bring healing, connection, and hope to all who observe Ramadan. To learn more about our culturally diverse community or discover the locally significant days that #DarebinCelebrates, hop on our website: https://lnkd.in/gFyQjYsR ⭐

Next week's Council Meeting will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday 3 March at 6pm. You can watch the meeting in person, on our LiveStream or played back on YouTube. 👉 Questions and submissions must be submitted by 12pm on the day of the meeting: https://ow.ly/RiSk50V6Awl 👉 For a full list of what’s on the agenda: https://ow.ly/9j4u50V6Awn 👉 Or watch the livestream of the Meeting: https://ow.ly/17OX50V6Awm

Darebin is committed to supporting early years’ programs and family facilities in our community. Today Mayor Kristine Olaris OAM & Kat Theophanous MP visited the Merri Community Childcare Centre and Kindergarten to celebrate its upgrade - the expansion of the room used for 3-year-old kindergarten, meaning more places and capacity at this centre. 🎉 This is the first construction project to be delivered through the Building Blocks Partnership Agreement between Council and the Department of Education. Through this partnership, more children will be able access kindergarten services in Darebin, which will ensure our youngest community members are given the best start in life. We are looking forward to the start of the next project which will see the expansion of Maryborough Avenue Kindergarten in Kingsbury beginning in early 2025. Thanks to Helen Evdokimou-Mina, Centre Director, for hosting us. 🎉

Your rates contribute to over 100 services in Darebin. From libraries to lighting, rubbish collection to community care, immunisations to park maintenance, we’re working to make Darebin a better place to live, work, study and play. Find out more about what you get for your rates and using Darebin services at https://lnkd.in/gxjZNmaV Darebin: Your place, our purpose.

On Thursday 13 February, the community came together to commemorate the 17th Anniversary of the 2008 National Apology to the Stolen Generations by the Australian Government. The speakers shared their experience of some of the effects the policy of forcibly removing children from their families had on them, their family and their community to a packed audience at the Preston Town Hall. The video screening the 2008 National Apology to the Stolen generation was played followed by music, then a ceremony at the Stolen Generations marker. The event was organised by Link-Up Victoria, in partnership with Connecting Home and City of Darebin. To find out more about the event, visit https://lnkd.in/gc8Cee3K

On Thursday 13 February, the community came together to commemorate the 17th Anniversary of the 2008 National Apology to the Stolen Generations by the Australian Government. The speakers shared their experience of some of the effects the policy of forcibly removing children from their families had on them, their family and their community to a packed audience at the Preston Town Hall. The video screening the 2008 National Apology to the Stolen generation was played followed by music, then a ceremony at the Stolen Generations marker. The event was organised by Link-Up Victoria, in partnership with Connecting Home and City of Darebin. To find out more about the event, visit https://lnkd.in/gc8Cee3K

Applications Now Open! Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is seeking proposals for exhibitions between October 2025 and October 2026. Artists and curators are invited to submit ideas for group and solo exhibitions, or creative projects suitable for presentation in the galleries of Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. For more information and to apply visit https://bit.ly/40LXYcp Applications close 2PM Thursday 13 March 2025 📷 Image credit: Darebin Art Prize (install view) 2024 Photography- James Henry